Daily Archives: June 27, 2013

Χάρτες της κομμούνας Gezi

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Σταχυολογούμε από εδώ. Έχει ενδιαφέρον γιατί αντιλαμβάνεται κανείς ποιοι κοινωνικοί ρόλοι αμφισβητήθηκαν και τι παρέμεινε “κανονικό”.

The park is divided into three.

Uptown is made up of the main platform facing Taksim square. It housed almost exclusively political stands and a Kurdish corner.

Midtown features a central rectangle, like a bath tub, flanked by an elevated East and West side. The Central Park was a mix of residential zones and socio-political stands. It’s characterised by the big square with the Fountain (10) and the children’s Castle (9).

The East Side is mainly residential. As a livestreaming collective, we had our base camp on the Upper East Side, at the intersection of Tenth Avenue and Second Street (14). For me personally, my secondary base was the International Corner, which I co-founded on Fourth Street (15). This area, the Lower East Side, was the core of the park, both logistically and politically. It housed the Commons, the Infirmary, the Kitchen, the Çapulçu Cafe and the Radio (1,2,3,4,12). It was also home to the Stage (11), which was controlled by Taksim Solidarity (17).

The West side was dominated by the fixed structured of what used to be a cafe, and what was turned into the Television studio of Çapulçu TV once it was occupied (13). Behind it, there was a natural border in the form a Grand Canyon leading down to the reconstruction site of Taksim square. Compared to the rest of the park, the far West Side was made up of slums.

At the border between the central square and downtown, a Memorial had been erected in honour of those who died (16). It consisted of the text ‘Taksim to the People’, dotted with candles that were lit every evening at nightfall.

Downtown differs from the rest of Gezi Park because of the organic layout of the streets as opposed to the rational Roman/American style city grid in Midtown. The heart of Downtown was entirely taken up by the central Warehouse (5), which collected and distributed all necessary medical, food and other supplies that were donated by the people of Istanbul and the rest of the world. Main features of Downtown, aside from the Victory garden, were the Library (7), built in the form of a fortress, and the Mosque (8), made from two party tents. At the exit of the park behind the Library there was also a subway station.

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Fortaleza: Νεκρός στις σημερινές συγκρούσεις στη Βραζιλία

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Οι διαδηλωτές επιμένουν να συγκρούονται με την αστυνομία έξω από τα γήπεδα που γίνονται οι πιο σημαντικοί αγώνες. Σήμερα κατέλαβαν λεωφορείο το οποίο μετέτρεψαν σε οδόφραγμα και τους πέταξαν μολότωφ. Σήμερα επίσης η αστυνομία χρησιμοποίησε sonic cannons. Σύμφωνα με  Ελ Παίς υπάρχει νεκρός στις συγκρούσεις. Οι μπάτσοι απαγορεύουν σε δημοσιογράφους να πλησιάζουν τα πεδία των συγκρούσεων,  επιτέθηκαν σε φεμινιστική διαδήλωση και σύμφωνα με αναφορές κούρεψαν μια διαδηλώτρια!

Εχθές έγιναν διαδηλώσεις από κοσμο που ζει στις φαβέλες με αφορμή την εισβολή στη Nova Holanda και το μακελειό που έκαναν οι μπάτσοι:

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Χιλή: Η αποκλειόμενη νεολαία συνεχίζει να μάχεται

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Μαθητές είχαν καταλάβει τα σχολεία τους για να εμποδίσουν την εκλογική διαδικασία που πρέπει να γίνει αυτό το σαββατοκύριακο. Η αστυνομία εισέβαλλε στα σχολεία και έκανε συλλήψεις.

Αυτή τη φορά στη διαδήλωση συμμετείχαν και συνδικάτα μεταλλωρύχων:

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ενδιαφέρον άρθρο:

They turn up to almost every demonstration in the Chilean capital Santiago and hurl stones, petrol bombs and even acid at the police.

They spray the walls of the city with graffiti and attack journalists who try to film or photograph them.

They are the “encapuchados” or “hooded ones”, and they have become a regular feature of the protests that have convulsed Chilean society over the past two years.

During that time, students have staged scores of demonstrations across the country. Environmentalists, gay rights activists, copper miners and members of Chile’s indigenous communities have also taken to the streets to air their grievances.

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